"Senior Zhou, are you really Senior Zhou Chuyu?"
Chu Yu smiled. The eyes of the senior high school students still revealed a clear naiveté, and their gazes towards people were also very pure. Chu Yu looked down at them as if looking at a brood of newly hatched yellow chicks, wanting to touch their soft and clean feathers.
"I am Zhou Chuyu, and like you all, I am a student of Teacher Zhang. It's a pleasure to meet you all."
The classroom erupted in uproar, as if the roof was about to be torn off. Zhang Zhihe had always praised senior Zhou Chuyu. Although she had left, her legend still lived on in the class, and everyone lived in her shadow.
In this situation, it's inevitable that some people will be unconvinced, feeling that Senior Zhou isn't as outstanding as Teacher Zhang boasted. But reality is the most slapping thing. Senior Zhou is not only beautiful, but also has a lovely voice. Not to mention the whole of Deyang, even looking at the whole province and the whole of China, you can't find a girl more outstanding than Senior Zhou.
She is so outstanding that it makes people feel inferior.
"Senior Zhou, is it really you? Old Zhang didn't lie to us!" Class monitor Qiao Xiaoxiao said excitedly. "Senior Zhou, is Tsinghua University fun? Is Beijing fun? Teacher Zhang said that university life will be easy, is that true?"
"Senior Zhou, did you get a boyfriend in college? What kind of man do you like?"
The moment the male student finished speaking, Qiao Xiaoxiao gave him a disdainful look, "Anyway, you're not like that! Forget about it!"
The boy laughed and said, "I'm asking on behalf of all the guys out there. I'm just curious, what kind of guy is good enough for you, senior? You're so outstanding, it's a bit of a waste for you to find a boyfriend on Earth."
He's a talkative guy in class, always telling harmless little jokes that make everyone laugh. He's a bit mischievous, but he doesn't mean any harm, and he has a pretty good reputation in class.
Everyone burst into laughter, genuinely feeling that no one was good enough for their senior, Chu Yu.
"Senior, I go to your second uncle's roujiamo shop every day, but I've never seen you once."
"Senior, where did you buy your clothes? They're so pretty!"
"Senior, do you have any English learning tips you can share with us?"
Chu Yu answered each question one by one. She had rarely returned since she went to study in Beijing. This year, she was back for the Spring Festival, and she took this opportunity to support Teacher Zhang.
"Regarding English learning, I do have a little trick to share with you. I'm not good at memorizing individual words, but I memorize entire articles. Once you've memorized the article thoroughly and memorized its meaning, the words will naturally come to mind. When I memorize articles, I imitate other people's pronunciation and try to understand the meaning of each word. As long as you memorize the article and fully understand it, the words in that article will be stored in your mind. Repeat this a few times, memorize more articles, and your vocabulary will increase. At the same time, you'll also gain a pronunciation and intonation as good as a broadcaster."
There are no shortcuts in learning; it's all about hard work. However, Chu Yu's method is quite effective; she's relied on it to get high scores in both her lives.
She scored nearly 140 points on the college entrance exam in her previous life, and she also scored high in this life. Her entrepreneurial experience may not be effective, but her method of learning English is something she has actually tried.
As she spoke, the students below were all diligently taking notes.
Students these days are very simple and hardworking.
According to Zhang Zhihe, a girl in his class walks 10 miles to school every day, and after school she has to cut pig feed in the dark and take care of her paralyzed father and grandparents.
Her family hoped she could get married early to support them, and the dowry she earned would be used to help her younger brother get married.
To prove she was academically capable, she rarely slept at night, often reading under the covers with a flashlight. Later, finding flashlight batteries too expensive, she simply started studying under the school's streetlights. If the security guard on duty at night hadn't discovered her, she probably would have continued like that indefinitely.
She was one of the students sponsored by Chu Yu. As long as she could get into university, she could escape her predetermined fate.
This is also why Chu Yu does charity work; she hopes to help more girls in difficult circumstances.
After Chu Yu finished his speech, the students were impressed but confused. Their expressions changed, and they couldn't wait to try Chu Yu's methods right away. Zhang Zhihe was also quite happy to see that it worked.
Winter break is coming soon, and there's a lot going on at school, so Zhang Zhihe won't be able to properly entertain Chu Yu. Chu Yu doesn't mind, though; winter break starts tomorrow, and she's going to visit Chen Baifu's house.
"Hey! Zhou girl!" Chen Baifu exclaimed, both surprised and delighted as he opened the door. "What brings you here?"
Chen Baifu had already taken leave. In the past two years, the state-owned enterprise had not been doing well, and Ge Lanzhi had gone to Beijing to take care of Chen Shuangyu during childbirth and had not returned. So Chen Baifu had been thinking about taking a leave of absence without pay. His position was not high to begin with; he was just a department head in a button factory. Now that the button factory had no work, he could not earn any extra money and could not support his family on his fixed salary alone.
Starting this year, there have been rumors from higher authorities that some kind of labor contract system reform is going to be implemented.
They won't lay you off, but it's not much different from being laid off. The first to be affected are small, poorly performing state-owned factories like button factories.
Chen Baifu thought that rather than being laid off, it would be better for him to be sensible and retire early, take some money and go out to do business and make a name for himself. It would be better than competing for jobs with a group of laid-off workers in a few years.
The wave of layoffs won't arrive for several more years, but once a large number of employees are laid off, older employees like Chen Baifu, who have no special skills and are not at an advantage due to their age, will indeed have no advantage whatsoever.
“Reform is imperative, and it’s best that you can accept it,” Chu Yu said with a smile.
Upon hearing Chu Yu's words, Chen Baifu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Others may not know, but doesn't he? Back then, when Chu Yu's parents divorced, she was penniless and kicked out of her home. She made her fortune by selling discarded buttons from a button factory.
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